How Can I Enlarge One Of My Hard Drive's Partitions?

Discussion in 'Hardware' started by superstar, Sep 7, 2008.

  1. superstar

    superstar Major-Superstar

    I have an 80GB hard drive in my pc that is partitioned in two halves. The first half is my "C:Windows" partition which is approximately 20GB in size, and the other half is my "E:Data" 60GB partition which is used for any garbage data/downloads/documents/etc.

    I partitioned this drive into two halves a long time ago with the help of a friend through some command when you go to "run" in the start menu. I believe it was "diskmanagement.dsc" or something along those lines.

    Anyways I'd like to add more hard drive space to my "C:Windows" partition by taking away space from my "E:Data" partition. Is this possible? If so please tell me how to do this step by step. I need to do it because "System Restore" needs more space for restore points and I've fallen below 15% of required free space during Auslogic software defragmentations.


    Thank You
     
  2. BILLMCC66

    BILLMCC66 Bionic Belgian

  3. risk_reversal

    risk_reversal MajorGeek

    You will require HDD partitioning software (not sure if windows can do it). BiNG from terabyte unlimited is free and will do the job.

    I would suggest that you read up a little on disk partioning as this can be dangerous. It is usually best to make such changes in dos mode which will require a floppy drive. Software partioning software such as BiNG or Partition Magic come on bootable floppies.

    Good luck
     
  4. da chicken

    da chicken MajorGeek

  5. risk_reversal

    risk_reversal MajorGeek

    BiNG can be run from dos.

    Good Luck
     
    Last edited: Sep 7, 2008
  6. da chicken

    da chicken MajorGeek

    Uh, no.

     
  7. risk_reversal

    risk_reversal MajorGeek

    A good prog in my opinion.

    Good Luck
     
    Last edited: Sep 7, 2008
  8. hrlow2

    hrlow2 MajorGeek

    to Adamooo
    I think he might have settled this 2 1/2 years ago. rolleyes;)
     

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